[ SECRET POST #1989 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1989 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 048 secrets from Secret Submission Post #284.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[countess_k]

Color me butthurt but I'm an aspiring writer and the first and last thing I hear all the time is how your book should grab the reader and take off from page one (even line one) so that they wouldn't be able to put it down. If you're on page 100 and it still doesn't grab you you're being too generous with the author (and yes, I know who he is and all the brouhaha, it's still no excuse.)

[mercoledi]

Aspiring editor backing you up there. The only reason why Stephen King gets away with it is he's Stephen King. People in the industry have said that they'd publish his shopping list if he submitted it to a house, even though it's pretty much a given that a King novel would have a slow half somewhere in it.

Which sort of begs the question of how he got that popular in the first place, but my guess has to do with the fact that the 70's were just an unusual decade for books. (Well, that and admittedly, Carrie kicked ass.)

[countess_k]

In his autobiography he said he threw away the first draft of Carrie and his wife fished it out of the waste basket and helped him work on it. All the trophies for the awesome wife.

But yeah, being an unknown writer sucks. My back is nearly bent from how much I practice every day and how many first drafts I have thrown out (not to mention a 300,000 word trunk novel that still pains me like a stillborn child,) but that is the business. And I even read in a book by an editor that publisher would sooner publish something offered by Paris Hilton than any new writer with real talent.

/butthurt rant

[cyberghostface]

Most of his books in the first decade were pretty slim. The exception being The Stand, but even that was cut down by the publishers for its first release.

[cyberghostface]

IMO 90% of his books do grab you from the beginning, It included. Only a handful of his books I've found to be slow.

spoilers (for both It and 11/22/63 maybe?)

[(Anonymous)]

"It" kept my attention right from the beginning, but I can see where if you were expecting it to be BAM BAM SCARY BAM MURDER BAM EVIL CLOWN BAM rather than having the story build up first the first hundred pages might not interest you, especially because there's no real attachment to the characters yet.

except that I read 11/22/63 first, so the part with Bev I spent going "NO, BEVVY-FROM-THE-LEVEE, NOOOOOO."